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African Elephant War Bow Questions
stickbender:
Yes indeed, some of those bow will humble you. There is supposed to be documented proof, of a 75-100 yd. shot of an English Long Bow, that sent an arrow through a knights leg, and into his horse, and killed the horse, and impaled the knight to the horse. I was told that when I was in England, back in 1990. But some of them were in excess of a hundred pounds. Took one hell of a man to pull that back, and hold it. I would not want his meat hooks, getting a grip on my neck! :o But they were selected as young boys to be archers, and trained daily with bows, so they sort of grew into it. Some of the skeletons on board the ship that sank in the harbor, (can't remember the name of it at the moment. Mary something, Rose? maybe.) were believed to be archers because of the thicker and flattened bones of the left forarm, due to the constant strain of archery and heavy bows. I give her credit indeed for being able to pull that string back to the let off point. Doubt I could. I wouldn't hunt an Elephant, but I would dearly love to have some tusks, and an Elephant foot umbrella stand. Saw a matching pair of tusks in the home of a very wealthy man years ago. They were at least six feet tall and very thick. I remember seeing an Elephant leg umbrella stand, in an antique shop when I was a young boy.
Wayne
CraigMBeckett:
--- Quote from: stickbender on July 03, 2011, 10:54:15 pm ---
Hawkeye, Howard Hill used I believe a 105# Bamboo bow, and a six foot arrow.
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Wayne I don't know where you got the idea HH used 6 ft arrows, take a look at the video of the kill:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buyE2sYXU5Y
and you will see he used normal length arrows.
Craig.
stickbender:
Ok, I stand corrected. ;) I read the article back in the early to mid 60's. Somewhere in there a six foot arrow was mentioned for somethig or another. Thought it was for the Elephant. I could have the six foot arrow from another article of that era, confused ???with Howard Hill's remarkable feat. Thanks for the video. 8)
Wayne
stickbender:
Buuuuutttt.....the arrow was not a normal length, arrow......it stated it pierced 31 inches, into the heart, and there was still almost half of the length left sticking out. Though it did not look quite that long in the pictures. Still not six feet. Could be Artistic license on the part of the narrator. ;) Cool video. That was quite a distance he shot at it also. :o 8) Thanks again.
Wayne
heavybow:
Howard Hill used a 115# bow. ad the arrows were 41" long.
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